Early Schools of Thought/people
This school of thought believed that the whole of consciousness is greater than the sum of its parts.
What is Gestalt?
This psychologist conducted the Little Albert experiment to show that behavior can be learned.
Who is John Watson
This research method is easy to conduct but not necessarily the most reliable.
What are surveys
This group provides a way to compare the treatment groups.
What is the control group.
Correlation does not equal this
Causation
This early school of thought focuses on the purpose of consciousness and opposes Structuralism.
What is Functionalism?
Self Actualization is on the top of this hierarchy.
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
The study of Phineas Gage is an example of this research method.
What is case study
This variable gets manipulated by the experimenter
What is the Independent variable
This is a measure of variation that indicates the typical distance between the scores of a distribution and the mean.
What is standard deviation
This psychologist created the early school of thought known as Functionalism.
Who is William James
The psychodynamic school of thought believed that these three things impact our personality
the ID, Ego, and Superego
A teacher analyzing students behavior in the cafeteria is an example of this research method
Naturalistic observation
If both the experimenter and the participants do not know what treatment they are receiving, it is an example of this type of study
What is a double-blind study
In this type of curve, most occurrences take place in the middle of the distribution and taper off on the sides
What is a normal bell curve
Introspection is a part of this school of thought.
What is Structuralism?
Our ability to reason with logic would be studied by this school of thought.
What is the Cognitive School of Thought.
This type of research method produces the least amount of bias.
Experiment
An experiment always has a chance of being skewed by these types of variables if not accounted for properly.
What are confounding variables
This is the strongest correlation value
negative or positive 1.0
This woman was the first to receive a PHD in psychology
Margaret Floy Washburn
Roger Sperry and Michael Gazzaniga were a part of this school of thought.
What is the Biological school of Thought.
This research methods aims to gather information from the same group over time
What is longitudinal studies
This process ensures no bias for which groups the participants are placed in
What the process of random assignment
The mean, median, and mode are measures of this
What is central tendency